Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham Cv
Rodney Graham is recognized for a rigorously intellectual art, which ranges from photography, film, video and music to sculpture, painting and books. Graham's work examines social and philosophical systems of thought, in particular those derived from the transition of the Enlightenment into Modernism. Underlying each work is an historical context, through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophic references and visual puns.The work is essentially circular in structure and moves in seamless and infinite loops, such as the film trilogy Vexation Island (1997), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999), and City Self/Country Self (2001), where Graham impersonates fictional characters - respectively a castaway, a cowboy and a city dandy as well as its opposite, a country man – who are engaged in the endless repetition of fruitless actions and gestures, caught in the impossibility of reaching any meaningful conclusion. Borrowing from existing models, Graham constructs his own system, whose operating logic, often based in disorientation, the humorous and the absurd, deflects rather than reveals the key to their interpretation.
Rodney Graham lives and works in Vancouver.
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Rodney Graham Press
Art News, 1st September 2010
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Art Review, 1st October 2010
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Globe and Mail, 24th February 2010
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Frieze Magazine, 7th May 2008
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Time Out, 24th October 2007
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Rodney Graham Exhibitions
Rodney Graham Public Exhibitions
PASTIt Is What It Is
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
22 October 2010 - 30 January 2011
The National Gallery of Canada
Rodney Graham
Through the Forest, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
22 October 2010 - 30 January 2011
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Rodney Graham – Through the Forest
MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, ES
30 January 2010 - 18 May 2010
MACBA
Glass of Beer
CAC Málaga, Spain
21 April 2008
CAC Málaga
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
30 March 2007 - 16 June 2007
BAWAG Foundation
Rodney Graham, A Little Thought
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
25 July 2004 - 3 January 2005
MOCA LA
Rodney Graham
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
15 February - 15 May 2003
K21
Rodney Graham, Music and Some Noise
Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Kunsthalle Zurich
Rodney Graham Images

Artist’s Model Posing for “The Old Bugler, Among The Fallen, Battle of Beaune-la-Roland, 1870” in the Studio of An Unknown Military Painter, Paris, 1885, 2009 Painted aluminium lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency 181.9 x 247.9 x 17.8 cm

Good Hand Bad Hand,2010 Two painted aluminum lightboxes with transmounted chromogenic transparencies 89.5 x 74.3 x 17.8 cm each panel 89.5 x 173.6 x 17.8 cm installed

Psychomania variation II, 2010 Multi canvas painting 228 x 435 x 5 cm

Psychomania variation I, 2010 Multi canvas painting 245 x 612.5 x 5 cm

My Late Early Styles (Part I, The Middle Period), 2007-2009 Chromogenic photograph 186.4 x 247.6 cm

Inverted Drip Painting #34 2008 Liquid acrylic on linen 276.9 x 215.9 cm

Rotary Psycho-Opticon, 2008 AV & Multimedia 120 x 144 inches

Screen Door, 2005 Solid silver 203 x 82 x 12 cm

Tourqued Chandelier Release, 2004 35mm silent colour film (5min), purpose built projector screen Screen 305 x 183 cm

Images qui succedent à la contemplation d’objets d’un grand éclat ou même d’objets bien éclaires,1989 Brass, plexiglass and book 14 x 67 x 50 cm
Rodney Graham Contact
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